A widowed mother of six had breast cancer. In the months preceding her death, the members of her church held weekly prayer meetings, begging God to heal her. Twice, all night prayer vigils were held on her behalf, but she wasn’t healed. Instead of the will of God being done, she died. Why? ANSWER: The problem starts with assuming that what they did was the way to effect divine healing. Unfortunately for their theology, it is not. The problem starts with begging God. If you are born-again in Jesus with indwelling Holy Spirit, we are sons of God in Jesus, sons do not beg, they command like Jesus did, they speak just like their Father or their big Brother speaks. In fact, in Ephesians 5:1 we are commanded to imitate, copycat God, and therefore imitate Jesus, act just like He would and do it the way He would. There is no record in the Bible of ever begging for healing from God. So who were these Christians copycatting? 1 Peter 2:24 says we were healed 2000 years ago. Rather than begging, more effective is command ministry followed by lots of exuberant thanksgiving for that which is not yet seen - see Phil 4:4-9 for any need, and Romans 4:16-21 on how Abraham got past his and Sarahs old age into childbirth. Begging God for divine healing is to call Him a liar in the New Testament. In Mark 11 we are told to speak to the mountain, telling it what to do then hold onto it, receive it, which includes lots of thanksgiving that you have it and you will see it. This is kind of like why you work for a week or two, and then get a paycheck. You keep in aiteo prayer and thanksgiving until you see it, the payoff, the healing. You do this BEFORE and UNTIL you see the answer. See Luke 18:1-8, and notice where the problem of unanswered or delayed prayer is. It is not God but the unjust judge who fears not man nor God. Here is Jesus preamble to the Our Father: Matt 6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. That word translated as ask is aiteo in the Greek, it means to demand by a promise made by a superior that had conditions. When the conditions are met, then you demand fulfilment with desire. The conditions for Christian prayer are the death and resurrection of Jesus. This is the manner or attitude Jesus said to use when you pray to get answers - demand, require, expect as due by covenant promise knowing Jesus has met all the requirements. Read the Our Father, there is not one begging word in it, but it is full of imperative words, which are commands, not suggestions - hallowed, come, be done, give, forgive, lead us not, and deliver. Do a study on the word aiteo for more understanding. The Our Father is how Jesus told us to pray, and that includes the manner or style. In that prayer, see all the words to God are in Greek imperative case. We are seeing far more results since we started ministering like Jesus told us to minister, using aiteo prayer. See covenantpeaceminist..., for the article under the Power Key Series, Power Key-aiteo, Demand as Due. It may not fit your theology, but is sure works wonderfully well. Intercession (in the work of continued begging prayer) in the manner of begging God for promises not in the new covenant is a different matter and not part of new convent/testament divine healing. The problem is not trying to move a willing God, but ignorance of the ways of God that allow a loving God to do good. The issue is not some perverted sense of the timing of God, but ignorance that lets the devil run over us, laughing at us all the way. Thus God says, Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. We are not destroyed, die early and miserable deaths by administrative decisions of God, but by our own arrogant ignorance, and then we turn around and blame it on God. That is the way the devil acts, not God. For different results, you need to renew your mind into the gospel of Christ in you the hope of heaven for the glory of the Lord to fill the earth through you, in this life.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 06:30:01 +0000
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